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"Three-part series presented by historian Benjamin Woolley about popular games in Britain from the Iron Age to the Information Age, in which he unravels how an apparently trivial pursuit is a rich and entertaining source of cultural and social history. In part one, Woolley investigates how the instinct to play games is both as universal and elemental as language itself and takes us from 1st-century Britain to the Victorian era. Ancient and medieval games weren't just fun, they were fundamental, and often imbued with prophetic significance. By the late Middle Ages this spiritual element in games began to be lost as gaming became increasingly associated with gambling. Dice and card games abounded, but a moral backlash in Victorian times transformed games into moral educational tools. This was also the era in which Britain established the world's first commercial games industry, with such classics as the Staunton Chess Set, Ludo and Snakes and Ladders leading the way, all adaptations of... more... - Graham Sergeant

I worked for Jonathan while at Google for a long time. He's at his best when he's inspiring. A must read. - Jason Shellen

This was posted internally about a week ago... cool to see it get posted (looks un-edited) in the open. :) - Michael Leggett

Way to go JR. - Jason Shellen

didn't Bill Gates have shares in Nintendo? , but it could be fun: pointing the old school NES gun on your iPhone! haha - Ibrahim El Issaoui

Doubt it. Nintendo is not publicly traded. - Raphael, Raphael

"Here's a fairy tale that could only happen in the movies. Man makes YouTube video. Goes to Hollywood. Gets pots of money and a movie deal. Except this story is true." - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

This is ok, tells the story well enough but the production values are not as high as The Purchase Brothers take on Half-Life 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch...) or the Empire invasion of San Francisco (http://www.youtube.com/watch...), both of which had next-to-nothing budgets. - Graham Sergeant

"One man's garbage is another man's treasure. But New York City's garbage, well that's art." - Graham Sergeant

Utopia... - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

or dystopia, depends on the POV ;) - Michael Bravo from f2p

@Michael, for sure. I think they set up the town as their little Utopia. - zeroinfluencer

Twitter is just a few simple things away from running an open-standards based stack in parallel with their own stack. Neither is wrong, but there are merits to doing it over existing standards as well. Let's start a movement. - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt, I agree, but Twitter didn't make it sound like that was happening any time soon when I asked in that thread above. You should bring it up again on the dev list though - I'd love to see that, yes. - Jesse Stay

Slowest parallax scroller ever? Looks good. - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

Confirming my suspicions that narrative and storytelling are not the same thing. The former is an algorithm, the later an equation. - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

"When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you. In fact I will give you my favorite quotation of many years. The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in my opinion, has ruined more good scientists than any institution has created, judged by what they did before they came and judged by what they did after. Not that they weren't good afterwards, but they were superb before they got there and were only good afterwards. This brings up the subject, out of order perhaps, of working conditions. What most people think are the best working conditions, are not. Very clearly they are not... more... - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

I'm half way through and although he has excellent insights, nothing so far helps explain lolcats. - Hayes Haugen

"On Thursday, at the 2009 Intelligence Warfighting Summit, Raytheon announced that they are developing a series of mission software applications designed for the iPhone.  At the summit, Raytheon showcased their One Force Tracker. This app allows the military to pinpoint their targets’ exact position using the Iphone’s GPS system." - Shevonne from Bookmarklet

"The Google Labs feature a new little tool called Google Browser Size. It just visualizes roughly how much of a page typical users (or more specifically, the users of Google) will actually see without scrolling. Just the browser client size is taken into account, and not the browser window (which include toolbars etc.), Google says. This tool can help you, for instance, to adjust positioning of an important navigation element, if you find that a big percentage of visitors might not see it directly upon page load." - Arnaldo M Pereira from Bookmarklet

Extremely interesting. Everyone should read. - scott willeke

I really enjoyed her TED talk when it became available. Then my wife's mother suffered a stroke, and my wife got a copy of "Stroke of Insight"... her work, along with her personal understanding, are helping people in important ways that wouldn't have been possible but for her own personal struggle and recovery. - Mark "DerBingle" J

astonishing - Tzury Bar Yochay

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"As we look towards the future, our goal is to provide developer parity with our site; if you can do something on MySpace, you should be able to take advantage of it in your app in some meaningful way." (Like build a squat app on Facebook) - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

Ask not what you can build for everyone, but what has everyone built for you. - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet